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Drawing New Boundaries: Finding the Origins of Dragons in Carboniferous Plant Fossils

Author(s) -

DorothyBelle Poli,

Lisa Stoneman

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

leonardo

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.254

H-Index - 23

eISSN - 1530-9282

pISSN - 0024-094X

DOI - 10.1162/leon_a_01576

Subject(s) - folklore , extant taxon , natural (archaeology) , narrative , carboniferous , meaning (existential) , paleontology , history , archaeology , geography , art , literature , evolutionary biology , biology , epistemology , philosophy , structural basin

Dragons thrive in gaps between and beyond spatial boundaries. Can science help explain their existence? Did humans’ investigation of natural phenomena create bits and pieces of dragon lore across cultures? The researchers used a transdisciplinary lens to reveal data unique among extant dragon origin explanations, including fossil evidence and descriptions of Carboniferous-Period plants, dragon folklore descriptions and locations and geographic correlations between the fossils and folklore. The hypothesis is that early humans came across these fossils, constructed meaning for them contextualized by current knowledge of the natural world and created or enhanced dragon lore narratives.

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